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Malay Peninsula. In appearance this bird is very similar 

 to those from nortli-west India, but it is duller, both above 

 and below, and has no yellow-bronze tint like the Assam 

 group, and very seldom any yellow on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts. 



As regards names for this gi'oup, we have the fol- 

 lowing : — 



(1) Gecinus occipitalis Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 8 : Mus- 



soorie. 



(2) Gecinus hessei Gyldenstolpe, Orn. Monatsb. xxiv. 1910, 



p. 28 : Siam. 



Admittedly, all of these are nothing but geographical 

 races of Picus canus canus, and will therefore bear that 

 specific name. 



Picus occipitalis was described together with Picus squa- 

 micollis in the P. Z. S. for 1830 as new species " from the 

 Himalaya Mouut:iins," but from what part of the Himalaya 

 they came there is nothing to show, though the presumption 

 is that occipitalis came with squamicollis from somewhere in 

 the north-west. We may therefore consider INIussoorie the 

 type locality for it. 



We have, then, the following races in India and 

 Burma : — 



(1) Picus canus occipitalis. 



Picus occipitalis Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 8. 



Type locality. iVTussoorie. 



The largest of all the Indian forms, with a wing averaging 

 158 and varying between 146 and 165 mm. Above, the 

 plumage is green with only a trace, sometimes rather pro- 

 nounced, of yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts. No 

 bronze-yellow suffusion on the wiugs and u])per plumage. 

 Tlie Nepal birds are small, as I have already shown, but 

 there are only three very old, very worn skins, and for the 

 present I prefer to keep them with this subspecies. Thev 

 are not in the least like the next bird in colour. 



Habitat. Western Himalaya, from Nainital, Mussoorie 

 and Garhwal to east Nepal, north iuto south Kashmir, 

 Simla States, and Kumaon. 



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